Erika Kirk thanks crowd at stadium for honoring Turning Level USA founder

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Erika Kirk, the widow of slain Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk, remembered her husband's legacy at a memorial for him Sunday — and revealed her ideas about his alleged murderer.

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect charged in Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 dying, was very similar to the opposite younger males that Charlie Kirk encountered, Erika Kirk stated.

Charlie Kirk "needed to save lots of younger males, similar to the one who took his life," she stated.

"Our Savior stated, 'Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.' That younger man … I forgive him," Erika Kirk stated. "I forgive him as a result of it was what Christ did, and it is what Charlie would do."

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Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, arrives on stage to talk in the course of the public memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sept. 21, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures)

Talking to a crowd at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Erika Kirk thanked the viewers for honoring her husband.

She started her speech by quoting considered one of Charlie Kirk's favourite Bible verses, Isaiah 6:8: "Right here I'm, Lord. Ship me," and recalled a time that Charlie Kirk repeated it on the finish of a convention.

"After Charlie completed, I met him backstage and I spoke to him … I stated, Charlie, child, please speak to me subsequent time earlier than you say that assertion," she stated.

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"As a result of if you say one thing like that, there's a lot energy in that verse … God will take you up on that, and He did."

Charlie Kirk was rapidly rushed to a hospital after being shot at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10. At his Sunday memorial, Erika Kirk described the second when she arrived to "do the unthinkable" and see her husband's corpse.

"I look(ed) immediately at my husband's murdered physique," she stated. "I noticed the wound that ended his life. I felt all the pieces you'll anticipate to really feel. I felt shock. I felt horror and a stage of heartache that I did not even know existed."

"However there was one thing else too. Even in dying, I may see the person that I like. I noticed the one single grey hair on the aspect of his head, which I by no means advised him about," she laughed. "Now he is aware of. Sorry, child, telling you now."

Erika Kirk speaks in the course of the memorial service for her husband, political activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium Sept. 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)

Erika Kirk added that she sensed "nice mercy from God" in her husband's dying when she considered his physique and noticed a faint smile.

"I additionally noticed on his lips the faintest smile … it advised me Charlie did not undergo. Even the physician advised me it was one thing so immediate that even when Charlie had been shot within the working room … nothing may have been carried out. There was no ache."

Erika Kirk additionally opened up about their marriage, revealing the non-public ritual that stored it robust even amid her husband's fixed journey.

"Somebody as soon as requested me how Charlie and I assumed we stored our marriage so robust when he was busy touring," she stated. "Our little secret: It was love notes. Each Saturday, Charlie wrote one for me, and he by no means missed a Saturday."

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Erika Kirk additionally opened up about their marriage, revealing the non-public ritual that stored it robust even amid her husband's fixed journey. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures)

"And in each single considered one of them, he'd inform me what his spotlight was for the week, how grateful he was for me and our infants," she added. "And all the time on the finish, he would all the time finish it with asking essentially the most stunning query, 'Please let me understand how I can higher serve you as a husband.'"

Above all, Erika Kirk emphasised her husband's religion and the way he practiced his Christian faith, revealing that he loved journaling to recollect essential moments in his life.

"And one of many issues he wrote in his journal was this, ‘Each time making a decision, it places a mark in your soul,'" she stated. "To these of you on the market who simply made that call, and took step one towards a non secular life, I say thanks and welcome."

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is pictured along with his spouse Erika Kirk on stage at an occasion earlier in 2025 in Phoenix. (Samuel Corum/Getty Pictures)

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She additionally emphasised how Charlie Kirk did "100% of what he may every single day," and that he left Earth "with out regrets."

"There was nothing that was too arduous or too painful or nothing that he simply felt like he did not wish to do," she stated.

"Charlie died with incomplete work, however not with unfinished enterprise," she stated. "And I'll miss him. I'll miss him a lot. As a result of our marriage and our household had been stunning."

Erika Kirk, proper, concluded by saying she was honored to be the brand new Turning Level USA CEO and that her husband's mission "is my mission." (Samuel Corum/Getty Pictures)

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Towards the tip of her speech, the widow concluded by saying she was honored to be the brand new Turning Level USA CEO and that her husband's mission "is my mission."

"All the things that Turning Level USA constructed through Charlie's vision and arduous work, we'll make ten occasions better by means of the ability of his reminiscence," Erika Kirk stated.